pétillent
\pe.tij\
The verdict
“pétillent” is uncommon French (frequency #89,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,039
- frequency rank, French
- 6,826
- “P” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pétiller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-petillent · pétillent · French
pétillent · rank #89,039 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,039
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,826
- PHOTO-FINISH pêne
Nearest frequency peer: pêne (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « pétillent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- pédalant
pédalant
10,965 corpus weight
- péninsulaire
péninsulaire
10,964 corpus weight
- pétillent
pétillent
10,962 corpus weight
- pêne
pêne
10,961 corpus weight
- Qingdao
Qingdao
10,960 corpus weight
- quaresma
quaresma
10,959 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « pétillent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | pétillent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \pe.tij\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #89,039 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « pétillent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
pétillent is uncommon French at frequency #89,039 among 6,826 “P” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \pe.tij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for pétillent in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is pétillent, spelled P-É-T-I-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de pétiller.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de pétiller.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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